Walther Nehring

Walther Nehring (15 August 1892-20 April 1983) was a General der Panzertruppe of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography
Walther Nehring was born on 15 August 1892 in Stretzin, Pomerania, German Empire (present-day Strzeczona, Poland) to a family that had immigrated to Germany from the Netherlands in the 17th century to avoid religious persecution as Protestants by Catholic Spain. Nehring served as an officer in the Imperial German Army during World War I before serving as an officer in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic and the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany, and he served in staff roles during the invasion of Poland in 1939 and the Battle of France in 1940. Nehring was given command of the Afrika Korps in North Africa when Erwin Rommel was given command of the new "Panzer Army Africa", and Nehring led German forces in Tunisia until December 1942. Nehring was later dispatched to fight against the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front, and he led the 4th Panzer Army from July to August 1944 and the 1st Panzer Army from March to May 1945. He surrendered the army to the Allied Powers in Slovakia in May 1945, and he died in Dusseldorf, West Germany in 1983.